I applied in-person. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA)
Interview
Majority of questions were behavioral, like "Tell me when you increased efficiency of the system", "Tell me when you took an unpopular decision and how you convinced others", "Give me an example of when you solved a complex problem with a simple solution", "What was your most challenging project". Surprisingly, some questions were repeated by different interviewers. The rest were technical questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
a. Design an algorithm to find K biggest numbers in the array.
b. Design an algorithm to find a shortest path between two given words of same lengths so that every word differs from preceding and succeeding word in the path by exactly one character.
c. Design a system that processes events in real time.
contacted by their recruiter and applied online. was scheduled a online test which consists of 3 questions required to be done in 90 minutes.
finish the test about 1 week ago but got no feedback, think I failed.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Stockholm, ) in Aug 2015
Interview
An amazon recruiter contacted me soliciting an application, I created and sent an application. He seemed to like my application and he asked me various questions such as citizenship and to submit a programming test. Everything seemed that they were very interested in me and I was invited to a recruiting seminar, then the recruiter suddenly goes silent and fails to deliver the information for the event as the time gets closer I ask for the details then several days later near the day of the event I receive a mail from a different person that I was not selected. Both of these people seemed to be proper company HR out of Seattle. I kindly requested to know why was I not selected only to receive a curt response saying we are unwilling to share that information with you.
0/10 would not try again.
If HR treats you that way and you don't work for them this is a big red flag.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
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